Announcement of the 1st European Workshop on MDO for Industrial Applications in Aeronautics – Challenges and Expectations

24-25 October 2017 Hosted by DLR, Braunschweig, Germany

1st European Workshop on MDO for Industrial Applications in Aeronautics – Challenges and Expectations

Multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO) based on high- and multi-fidelity methods have been intensively investigated during the last decades in academia and government research labs, and were shown to be promising tools for aircraft design. However, the perception exists that only limited transfer of formal MDO techniques into daily design work of aircraft manufacturers has been achieved until today.

At DLR, IRT Saint Exupéry and ONERA, we explore, implement and test innovative ideas and methods to practical MDO, based, in particular, on high-fidelity methods. With this experience and ambition at hand, we aim at bringing together practitioners from research and industry to discuss the bottlenecks and barriers of MDO use for airframe design, so that future solutions can be designed with these issues in mind.

This European workshop is the first of a planned workshop series organized by DLR, IRT Saint Exupéry and ONERA. The ambition is to establish a European MDO community to enhance collaboration on the subject.

Targets of the 1st workshop:

Establish a discussion platform among European institutions that assesses state-of-the-art MDO for aircraft industry and maintains European lead in real-world MDO

Uncover gaps and shortcomings of current MDO, especially for high-fidelity methods